I would say it is custodial Bitcoin but self custody of LBTC. Federated tokens and ecash where you actually hold and control the keys but the token is to be redeemed for trusted BTC makes for an odd categorization, imo.

In other words, I think it’s self custody of a credit token. Much like a banknote. Hard to decide if that makes it clearer or more complicated. But it definitely isn’t self custody BTC, you must have full power to withdraw without any other parties for that to be the case. Definitely doesn’t meet that requirement.

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I would also say the article isn’t trying to “pull one over” on the reader either. The very next sentence makes the trusted relationship clear. I wouldn’t have used the same wording of the first part, but it doesn’t seem to be disingenuous at all, imo

This paragraph maybe, but self-custody is used several other times in the same article.